Current original collection- guess who...

[Andrew]

Any guesses as to the makers? Can't give any more clues as it'll be too easy for you.

 

[bseal]

USA, UK and Austrailan craftsmen.

 

[Roughwear]

Doris Dunlop installed the zips on your first IAC jacket.

 

[Andrew]

USA, UK and Austrailan craftsmen.

Correct, you saw right through me .

From left John Chapman, Doris Dunlop, and others unknown.... In the mix are two Perry's, two RW 27752's, a V505, a Wareings and probably another IAC with zipper also installed by Doris.

 

[flyboy]

Amazing line up! You've got some mighty nice jackets there. What a shame you live in such a warm country

 

[John Lever]

Who's Doris?

 

[Persimmon]

Who's Doris?

I thought that as well.....

 

[flyboy]

Glad you got down in one piece from that ladder. You must have been high up to do that shot.

 

[Dr H]

This is how we all appear to a man of Andrew's stature...interesting perspective... :shock:

 

[dujardin]

it's so niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

 

[Andrew]

We'll all have to read Andrew's book to find out about Miss Dunlop- well when's it going to be Mr Irvin ?

The photo is straight from the iphone held a little above my head, not a bad result actually n'est-ce pas?

I've got a self imposed limit which is influenced by appropriate storage space, budget, personal sanity and happy wife, and I have a new GW in the tube so one Irvin and one A-2 need to go.... plus another GW and RMNZ. just when I don't know....

 

[John Lever]

I find it strange that my mobile takes better pics than my little Nikon. Phones seem to have a better white balance somehow.

 

[flyboy]

@ John: Guess thats why you can buy aps like Hipstamatic, Instamatic and what else - to make mobile pictures look old, color-weird and 50's-ish.

 

[ausreenactor]

An awewsome shot from a phone? Kudos....maybe the jackets bought out the best in the camera?

Impressive collection.

Couchy

 

[bombs away]

Hi Andrew,

Lovely collection, congrats !

And nice picure by the way

Tim

 

[Peter Graham]

Great jackets Andrew. Bags of character on display there.

 

[CBI]

Looking good!

 

[airfrogusmc]

COOL!!!

 

[Andrew]

The real reason for this thread was to sneak in one of John's early jackets to see if anyone was sleeping . This week it's 4 years old as I took delivery of it in the first week of July 08 (just before the GFC started to bite here).

So I thought it would be interesting to compare it now with how it looked then. Like your kids you just can't imagine how they ever looked like that.

As it was when John shipped it.

The comp pics show it a couple of days into wearing it and as it is today. I wear it almost daily from May to Early August so it's got 3.5 seasons on it. Looks like a jacket that's been through a War? Well I thought it was good enough to add to the originals pile. I've also been lucky to have some special Mates sign it and after my new GW arrives this one will probably end up sporting a patch that Ties made me 2 years ago. I've already replaced the Crown zip with a Mash Talon.

One jacket i'll never sell and hopefully my kids will love it too...

You can already see the long term creases starting after a couple of days.

The top coat fell off those ingrained creases almost straight away.

 

[High Iron]

Doesn't get any better than that!